Contributed by Simon Bartlett on Jun 25, 2022
                    
                
                
                    Many Christians believe that in Matthew 5:39 Jesus is calling us to pacifism.  If that was the case, he would be negating the Old Testament!  Jesus does call us to nonresistance, but in certain situations only - as his examples show.  He isn't pacifist and he doesn't call us to to pacifism.
                
                    
                        INTRODUCTION
I trained to become a Baptist minister at Bristol Baptist College.  While I was there, a Canadian couple called Tom and Rebecca Yoder Neufeld gave a talk.  The Yoder Neufelds are Mennonites.   
Mennonites trace their origins to the Anabaptists, and the Yoder Neufelds were at Bristol
                        
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